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Irwin (Instagram: @functionalfilms) has produced a new low-cost prime lens called the Simple 90. This 90mm prime is made in-house by Irwin himself, who 3D prints the barrel and self-assembles each and ...
The magnifier uses a variety of components [Ad_w00000] had lying around. For the optical side of things, an old Canon DSLR zoom lens was pressed into service as the main magnifying element.
Aven’s ProVue Solas magnifying lamps increase flexibility with multiple interchangeable lenses in their durable housings. Users can enhance working distance, magnification or field of view without the ...
The sculpture, Stick Sauce-ery, was a decorated cart incorporating a hand in it structure that seemed to be ready to bless people – a domestic ritual.
A team of scientsits used a nearby galaxy cluster as a magnifying lens that allowed them to study a much more distant galaxy in ten times the detail.
The Mars Hand Lens Imager is the rover’s version of the magnifying hand lens that geologists usually carry with them into the field. Its job is to capture close-up images to reveal the minerals ...
My reasons for keeping a hand lens with me are both practical and esthetic. Practically speaking, the lens I use, which enlarges what I gaze at 16-fold, enables me to diagnose the causes of ...
When a magnifying glass is held over a piece of paper at a distance equal to its focal length, the sun’s rays falling on the lens converge at a point that lies somewhere on the paper. Thus, solar ...
The first attempt was a 10 Euro set of magnifying glasses that have different strength lenses that interchange for different amounts of magnification.
A team of astronomers has used a massive galaxy cluster as a cosmic magnifying lens to study the nature of dark energy for the first time. When combined with existing techniques, this new method ...